"Y" Is for Yesterday

2017 mystery novel by Sue Grafton March 2025 "Y" Is for Yesterday Y Is for Yesterday.jpg First edition cover Sue Grafton United States English Alphabet Mysteries Mystery fiction G. P. Putnam's Sons August 22, 2017 Print (Hardcover) 496 first edition 978-0-399-16385-2 "X" "Y" Is for Yesterday is the twenty-fifth and final novel in the "Alphabet" series of mystery novels by Sue Grafton. Grafton intended to write a Z novel, but she died before she was able to do so. It features Kinsey Millhone, a private detective based in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California.Penguin Random House Biography: Sue Grafton https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/10747/sue-grafton December 30, 2017 The novel, set in 1989, finds Kinsey getting pulled into a decade-old case involving a sexual assault at an elite private school. The novel, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, was released in the United States on August 22, 2017.Jocelyn McClurg USA Today Gannett Read an excerpt from Sue Grafton's new 'Y Is for Yesterday' https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2017/05/04/sue-grafton-y-is-for-yesterday-excerpt-cover-reveal/101198844/ May 4, 2017 December 30, 2017 Plot summary In 1979 Iris Lehmann steals a test to help her best friend, Poppy Earl, a fellow student at a private high school in Santa Teresa. In the same year four teenage boys from the school sexually assault a classmate and film the attack. When the tape goes missing, the suspected thief, a classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one student turns state's evidence and two of their peers are convicted. Fast-forward to 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, is released from prison. McCabe's parents receive a copy of the attack that was filmed, along with a ransom demand. The McCabe family calls Kinsey Millhone for help. In an interview with NPR on August 20, 2017, Grafton stated the basis of the book was an amalgamation of two actual events: "The origin was a case that happened in Santa Barbara, where a kid was picked up because his brother owed $1,500 to a drug dealer. And eventually, he was shot and killed up in the mountains. Second part of the plot was from a case down in Orange County, where some kids –always kids– assaulted a girl and filmed it and then circulated this bunch of photographs, which she knew nothing about until somebody told her."Brown Dwane August 20, 2017 'Y Is For Yesterday': Sue Grafton's Penultimate Mystery Series Novel https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544886657/y-is-for-yesterday-sue-graftons-penultimate-mystery-series-novel December 30, 2017 NPR Publication history Y Is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton was published on 22 August 2017 by Marian Wood Books/Putnam, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton: Publication information https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sue-grafton/y-yesterday/ 2022-12-10 www.bookbrowse.com Critical analysis January 2022 Reviews On August 30, 2017, "Y" Is for Yesterday topped USA Today best-seller list.https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2017/08/30/sue-grafton-down-y-lands-no-1-usa-todays-books-list/612695001/ Sue Grafton, down to 'Y,' lands at No. 1 on USA Today's books list McClurg Jocelyn August 30, 2017 USA Today December 30, 2017 On September 1, 2017, it topped The New York Times Best Seller list and was later placed on its Fiction Best Sellers of 2017 list.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/books/review/y-is-for-yesterday-sue-grafton.html A Decades-old Detective Series Is Still on Top Christensen Lauren September 1, 2017 The New York Times December 30, 2017 Publishers Weekly reviewed the book with the following blurb: "Grafton once again proves herself a superb storyteller."BookBrowse Summary and reviews of Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/12689/y-is-for-yesterday 2022-12-10 BookBrowse.com en References External links Sue Grafton Alphabet Series official site Category:Kinsey Millhone novels Category:2017 American novels Category:2017 English-language novels Category:American mystery novels Category:G. P. Putnam's Sons books Category:Novels about violence against women Category:Novels set in 1979 Category:Novels set in 1989 Category:Articles with quotation marks in the title